New Nonfiction in 2022!

Hello Friends!

Happy 2022 from your friendly neighborhood Nonfiction “book pusher”! How was your 2021 reading year? What were the standouts you can’t stop thinking about?

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As you’re making your 2022 TBR (or not… I see you mood readers!) don’t forget to consider a few nonfiction titles —these are all either:
^NEW new or
•New in paperback

^The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan, pub 1/18/22, Harper Collins (Jewish – General) Bookshop.org

•The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women & Women to Medicine by Janice P Nimura, pub 1/18/22, (Norton WWI 19th century women PB release) Bookshop.org

^Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton, pub 1/18/22, (sociology of religion PB release) Bookshop.org

•When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love & Friendship by Martha Teichner, pub 2/1/22 (Celadon personal memoirs PB release) Bookshop.org

•The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman, pub 2/8/22 (Penguin Publishing pop culture) Bookshop.org

•Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, pub 2/8/22 (Viking Books poetry PB large print release) Bookshop.org

^Keanu Reeves’ Guide to Kindness: 50 Simple Ways to be Excellent by Hardie Grant, pub 2/15/22 (Hardie Grant pop culture) Bookshop.org

•The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back by Kate Moore, pub 2/22/22 (Sourcebooks women’s studies PB release) Bookshop.org

^Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World by Jennie Allen, pub 2/22/22 (Crown Publishing personal growth) Bookshop.org

•Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World by Anita Moorjani, pub 3/1/22 (Atria personal growth PB release) Bookshop.org

•Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff, pub 3/8/22 (Avid Reader Press parenting, social PB release) Bookshop.org

•Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William Bass and Jon Jefferson, pub 3/8/22 (Penguin Publishing forensic science PB Release) Bookshop.org

•The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion, pub 3/15/22 (Harper Collins WWII, women PB release) Bookshop.org

•Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell, pub 3/15/22 (Park Row Books women, history) Bookshop.org

•Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son by Homeira Qaderi, pub 3/22/22 (Harper Collins memoirs, motherhood PB release) Bookshop.org

^ The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke, pub 3/1/22 (Riverhead Books Personal Memoirs, Diseases – Immune & Autoimmune) Bookshop.org

^Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, pub 4/12/22 (Harper Collins memoir) Bookshop.org

^Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton, pub 4/12/22 (Harper Collins pop culture) Bookshop.org

^Unmasked: My Life-Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes, pub 4/26/22 (Celadon Books Memoir, True Crime) Bookshop.org

^Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis, pub 4/26/22 (Harper personal memoirs) Bookshop.org

^The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari Eder, pub 5/1/22 (Sourcebooks women in history) Bookshop.org

•Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford, pub 5/3/22 (Flatiron Books personal memoirs PB release) Bookshop.org

^Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver, pub 5/3/22 (Harper Collins personal memoirs) Bookshop.org

^Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of The Doobie Brothers by Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston, pub 5/10/22 (St. Martin’s Publishing music) Bookshop.org

^Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair, pub 5/17/22 (Doubleday memoir, disability) Bookshop.org

•Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust & Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green, pub 5/31/22 (Celadon serial killers PB release) Bookshop.org

^Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels & Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe, pub 6/28/22 (Doubleday rich and famous murders) Bookshop.org

•Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt, pub 7/26/22 (St. Martin’s Publishing Mental illness PB release) Bookshop.org

•Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life & Literature Farah by  Jasmine Griffin, pub 8/2/22 (Norton personal memoirs PB release) Bookshop.org

•Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, pub 8/9/22 (Picador time management PB release) Bookshop.org

•Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History & Insider’s Guide to Jeopardy! by Clair McNear, pub 8/16/22 (Grand Central Publishing television history PB release) Bookshop.org

What’s on your nonfiction TBR for 2022?

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